JOIN US'Metro man' E Sreedharan set to join BJP ahead of elections
In an impetus to the BJP in Kerala, E Sreedharan, popularly known as 'Metroman', decided to join BJP.
Kerala BJP state president K Surendran made the announcement in this regard.
Sreedharan later confirmed it to the media. He told a section of media that both the CPM-led Left Democratic Front and the Congress-led United Democratic Front that had been ruling Kerala over these years are only interested in political gains. He is hopeful that only the BJP-led NDA could initiate steps for Kerala's development. Hence, he decided to work with BJP, he said.
Sreedharan, who is now 89, may also contest in the upcoming Assembly elections.
Surendran said that many more eminent personalities in Kerala would soon join the BJP and contest in the polls. The party has urged Sreedharan to contest in the polls, he said.
He said that Sreedharan became a mote in the eye of both the LDF and UDF that successively ruled Kerala over these years as he was objecting to commissions being taken by political parties in development works.
Sreedharan, who led the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and is the principal advisor for Kochi Metro project, was closely associated with the Kerala government over the last many years and he was also carrying out reconstruction of the Palarivattom fly-over in Kochi that suffered damages due to poor quality of construction within three years after commissioning.
Sreedharan, who is a Padma Vibhushan recipient, is a native of Palakkad district in Kerala.